Yes, I screwed up...

[Elliot Kane]

The X-Force Universe forum was supposed to move BEFORE I deleted the category. Unfortunately, well, Steve & I are going to have to repost everything from scratch. But don't worry - the rest of you are ok

It would appear that the last board cannot be moved out of a category, which led to this rather unfortunate mishap.

[Dark Phoenix Rising]

can you not ask proboards to do a restore of that board? or do one youself?

[Elliot Kane]

No restore facility. That said - Steve & i have backups of everything, so it's a chore but not a total loss.

And also a valuable lesson if I have to delete categories again at some time in the future

[Elliot Kane]

And even more bizarrely, my copy of Downtime is missing a vital chapter. Normal service will be resumed ASAP...

[Shan]

Sorry, to hear that Elliot.

Glad to hear that you guys have backups and can add them all again.

And like you said, you found out something new and something that could be important. ;D

Good luck with the reposting.

Shan

[Elliot Kane]

Thanks, Shan

I'm just glad I didn't do my learning with the General Forum. That would have been a little harder to recover from, I think ;D

[Shan]

True, and you might have had a mutiny or massacre on your hands.

Shan

[Elliot Kane]

Or both ;D

[Gray Lensman]

Downtime is still around. We didn't delete it. It just got hidden way back in Stories & Poetry.

The whole thing is here in it's entirety: Downtime

Edit: I since moved it over to the X-Force board, but it's still there.

It's been a while since we've actively worked on X-Force. I've focused most of my attention on Night Spider and Blitz. So Downtime sort of faded into the background. I must admit, I am very glad we didn't post that thread in X-Force now.

Once I do get back to Downtime, I expect my writing style should come across as a dramatic shift in midstream, but that's writing for you.

[Elliot Kane]

**Breathes again**

I'm obsessive about keeping all the plots up to date, and usually obsessive about the arcs. However, I slipped badly on this one. Thanks, Steve

[janggut]

from the strong beats, i'd say EK & Steve have very healthy cardiac activities. or was it anxiety? ;D

anyways, glad that u guys got back what was missing though some work is needed to put things back. i'd say, EK, u should have those stories up on a separate website as well.

[Elliot Kane]

They ARE Jang - once we've finished them. As Steve & I create them together, though, it makes sense to keep them on 'common ground' during the process of creation, as it were.

[Gray Lensman]

As Elliot has said, we have a specific process that we use. It's served us in good stead for some years now.

The way we work on X-Force is as follows...

Elliot and I toss around ideas, then El works up the plot. We choose what scenes we write, depending on our strengths. (For instance, I am the best choice to write Kitty Pryde, while anything Illyana-centric is clearly best handled by Elliot.) Then we write and post scenes in the proper plotted order.

We keep stories here during the development phase. Sometimes we may decide to edit or change small details in our chapters, or El may decide to make plot changes. We do store everything we do, to ensure we don't lose work. Once the story is complete, I post it on the X-Force page.

When in development, we really need to be in a place that we can make alterations. That's best done on the boards, where we can edit things simply if need be. Makes things easiest for both of us.

[Shan]

Sounds like a great system to me and one that the 2 of you have made work well for both of you.

The stories turn out great.

Shan

[Gray Lensman]

Thanks, Shan.

Our working relationship is rather unique, in truth. Elliot likes to be very detail-oriented until a story comes out to his liking. Which is fine by me; I always let him do it. I am open to any of a number of ways that a story can work; I ask only that it does work. We also have similar enough visions of who the X-Forcers are that we're normally on the same page. I doubt either of us could work half as well with anyone else.

I'm open to most anything, and I never argue with what works. I suspect this is a large part of the reason we get along.

[Elliot Kane]

I know I couldn't If Steve's vision for X-Force were significantly different to mine, I couldn't work with him at all. Fortunately, our ideas of who the characters are come from long term reading of the same comics, so it's easy for us to reach agreement

That, and we discuss such things exhaustively

Steve is also a very reasonable person who is interested in most of the same story genres I am, which also makes it a whole lot easier.

If the X-Force saga ever reaches its end (Or what is tentatively pencilled as the final story) you should be able to see a lot of the buildup beginning right at the start, before finally carrying through to the big pay off. I hope

[janggut]

looks like u two got things covered very well. it's just unfortunate & unforseen circumstance of the board acting up that u guys had to do more than just a simple restore.

nevertheless, the good communication & friendship that u two have that make the big difference.

[Elliot Kane]

True that

[Gray Lensman]

This is what counts, Jang, yes.